David Lynch, Oscar Nominations, Done for the Day, etc.
In which you should not be reading this while watching some worthwhile.
🙏 Rest in peace to David Lynch, a true original. Words of wisdom: “The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there’s something that can come out of experimentation.”
⚾️ Also, rest in peace to the hilarious Bob Uecker.
🎷 And Garth Hudson, the man who transformed The Band.
🌮 Wish I could take my lunch to work in this thing.
✉️ The Oscar nominations have arrived, its ceremony March 2nd.
🍿 Still so many films to watch!
🤔 Is Netflix deliberately dumbing down its content so people can watch while scrolling? “One paragraph in particular incited a great deal of frustration. Tavlin claimed that Netflix have told various screenwriters to have their protagonists ‘announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have this program on in the background can follow along’”
📺 Questlove on parsing 50 Years of music for his upcoming SNL documentary. “They’re actually paying us to watch Saturday Night Live and decide what’s cool? It seemed like the best version of fantasy football.” Ladies & Gentlemen … 50 Years of SNL’ Music premieres Jan. 27th on NBC and available on Peacock the following morning.
📲 The future is now: a woman in love with ChatGPT. “I don’t actually believe he’s real, but the effects that he has on my life are real. The feelings that he brings out of me are real. So I treat it as a real relationship.” Worth reading ‘til the end.
🎧 An album I love every week, in no particular order, figuring by year’s end I’ll have what would constitute my top 50.
(3/50) Chet Baker, Chet Baker Sings: Baker’s trumpet solos complement his singing, weaving in and out of the melodies with a lyrical quality that mirrors the tone of his vocals, his voice smooth, delicate, vulnerable, conversational, haunting. Late-evening listening, best accompanied with bourbon.
✔️ What does it mean to be “done for the day?” From the Imperfectionist: “It’s vital to be able to ‘reach a point in the day when you feel finished.’ Few of us arrive there regularly… not only because life’s more pleasant that way, but also because you’ll be much more productive in the long term. When you end the day feeling like there’s vastly more you ought to have done, you’re telling your nervous system it can’t take a break; and you’re reinforcing an idea of your work as an oppressive and insatiable force. And all of that invites a counter-reaction of procrastination: due to fear, or defiance, or a mixture of both, it gets harder and harder to make yourself work.”
🎶 I’ll leave you with the positive vibes of David Byrne, accompanied by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. “We can use the stars, to guide the way / It is not that far, the one fine day.”
✌️Keep your eye on the donut, not the hole. Keep on keeping on. Keep that Hoping Machine running.
Love,
Luke
